Quoting Peter Szinek <peter / rt.sk>:

What about trying Korundum and building the web browser around KHTML? If it
works for Apple, it could work for you.

> Hello,
>
> I have been asking this more times here but did not got even a single
> answer - not even a 'we don't know' so please this time send me a 'we
> don't know' at least (I have no clue who should send this, though ;-)
>
> ATM i am working on an open-source web extraction product - it will be a
> mozilla based screen scraping tool, which will need minimal user
> interaction to mine the relevant data (more or less you will have to
> draw a box around the data you would like to extract and it will be
> extracted automatically). As i am working in a web extraction company
> for the 5th year now, i know that this will be a killer app, and my
> employer's 150.000 EUR software is nowhere near this effectivity (at
> least not w.r.t the screen scraping part).
>
> This is all very nice, but why i am writing this here? Because so far
> this cool product is in Java - for two reasons:
>
> 1) When i begun with it i did not know Ruby
> 2) Even if 1) would not true, we had (and still have) every tool we
> needed in Java, whereas this is not true for Ruby(?) Or? This is the
> question i would like to ask.
>
> Alternatively, 1) could be replaced somehow in a fashion that the IDE
> would be a mozilla browser and i would call Ruby through JS from the
> browser.
>
> The app is based on mozilla, i need 2 things there:
>
> 1) A widget that can be embedded into a GTK (or something equal) Ruby TK
> GUI or alternatively a way to call Ruby code from mozilla
> 2) rbXPCOM or something similar binding to access the Mozilla DOM via
> XPCOM.
>
> Basically i need to render a page, and get the nsIDOMDOCument of that
> page to get started.
>
> I have already contacted the author of 1), however i have no clue about
> 2). Does anybody have idea about it, or about the whole stuff in general
> (i.e. if it could be moved from Java to Ruby)
>
> It would be a pity to not gain some + attention to Ruby through this,
> since i would like to launch a web portal with this product later, and
> if i can not do it in Ruby, i has to stay with Java (which i don't
> really like anyway, mainly when compared to Ruby)
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
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